Point is: It's a joke. Learn the difference.
"Still, in those early days, the collective fury felt righteous, powerful and effective. It felt as if hierarchies were being dismantled, as if justice were being democratized."
This is delusional slacktivism. Overthrowing power structures and hierarchies by retweeting. How more delusional can you get?
OTOH, if you've got a PR job or a shitty position where you'd get fired for saying such stuff, you really ought to be ever so careful. Why are people posting this stuff with their real names attached? Unless you've got FU money or are in a career track that's mostly immune to this kind of harassment, just use a separate personal account. FFS, does anyone think the general public wants your tweets?
When can you get 15,000 people to hate something you've decided is worth hating, its quite a buzz.
Once I saw a T-Shirt in tshirthell.com that said something like "arrest black babies before they become criminals". I don't remember the exact words. THAT is obviously and ridiculously over the top.
I gather many youtube commenters have a Twitter account and an attitude.
Offensive people who do offensive things and then defend them saying 'it was just a joke, bro!'